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Quotes About Reverence

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.
~ Gary Zukav
Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.
~ Bible
The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them
~ Radhe Maa
Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers
~ Radhe Maa
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
~ Bernie Siegel
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.
~ John Cowper Powys
Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.
~ Simon Critchley
[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.
~ Will Durant
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?
~ Shannon L. Alder
Are we insane? The moment we awake, we shall acknowledged God as the Divine Being.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
~ Robert Bly
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
~ Anthony Burgess
May God grant children who will fear and revered Him.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Every spoof gives more power to the original.
~ Shepard Fairey
Reputation is the road to power
~ Jeremy Bentham
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
~ Lawrence Kushner
Modern witchcraft, she'd learned, was simply a religion that reveres nature.
~ Will North
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
~ William Ames
I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats
I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy which forgives every wrong, and which never despairs of the cause of Christ and human virtue! I do and I must reverence human nature…. I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.
~ William Ellery Channing
a timid reverence for the decisions of our ancestors, as if it were the nature of the mind always too degenerate and never to advance.
~ William Godwin
What! thy stammering prayers make music in God's ear!
~ William Gurnall